* 1862, in the bloodiest battle day in U.S. history, Union forces hurled
back a Confederate invasion in the Civil War Battle of Antietam at
Sharpsburg, Md.
* 1908, Thomas E. Selfridge, a 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Signal
Corps, became the first person to die in the crash of a powered
aircraft, the Wright Flyer. (The accident, which also seriously injured
pilot Orville Wright, occurred at Fort Myer, Va., just outside
Washington.)
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